March 17, 20223 yr 8 minutes ago, Bill said: This is the dumbest take. NATO air defenses only cover NATO territory. It doesn’t extend into Ukraine. Never the less, the overwhelming majority of the cruise missiles launched were intercepted by Ukrainian forces. There’s no super weapon. Russia flashes technology they don’t have knowing the way the news is clickbaity and they won’t make a correction down the line. BS! The Patriot system has a range of 100km. They were supposedly set up 50km from the border. None of the missiles were intercepted. NATO mercenaries didn't know the missiles were coming until they heard them overhead. The Pentagon has acknowledged Russia's hypersonic missile tech and they don't think it's click-bait. Russia has warned that they have the capability to evade our defenses and they just demonstrated it. BTW, did you see that the Pentagon has cut some purchases of the F-35 in the next budget? Why is that?
March 17, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: BS! The Patriot system has a range of 100km. They were supposedly set up 50km from the border. None of the missiles were intercepted. NATO mercenaries didn't know the missiles were coming until they heard them overhead. The Pentagon has acknowledged Russia's hypersonic missile tech and they don't think it's click-bait. Russia has warned that they have the capability to evade our defenses and they just demonstrated it. BTW, did you see that the Pentagon has cut some purchases of the F-35 in the next budget? Why is that? Ah, double down on your stupidity. Bold strategy. Just because it has a range doesn’t mean it was used, you dolt. The minute the missiles would have crossed over the border they would have been toast. Also, yes, most of the missiles were intercepted. Only three landed. The rest were intercepted by SA-300V platforms. It’s clickbait. They can’t afford the cost associated. Yeah no, they couldn’t even beat their own legacy systems. The Pentagon is realizing that it doesn’t need as much modern tech anymore. We found out in 91 that our legacy systems beat their legacy systems, and right now they can’t even beat their own legacy systems. Honestly it’s an astute move on the DoDs part for not having to spend as much money and still have the capacity for an overwhelming victory. Not to mention that Allies are now looking to purchase F-35s, which negates us having to field as many since our Allies will be fielding modern tech instead of European legacy tech.
March 17, 20223 yr 400 bulletproof vests donated to Ukraine stolen in NYC https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/400-bulletproof-vests-donated-to-ukraine-stolen-in-nyc/ar-AAV9sba?ocid=BingNews Pathetic POS.
March 17, 20223 yr This isn't all of his thread but there was a lot in there I thought worthy of sharing.
March 17, 20223 yr WSJ: A Ukrainian Town Deals Russia One of the War’s Most Decisive Routs In the two-day battle of Voznesensk, local volunteers and the military repelled the invaders, who fled leaving behind armor and dead soldiers VOZNESENSK, Ukraine—A Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder, Voznesensk’s funeral director, Mykhailo Sokurenko, spent this Tuesday driving through fields and forests, picking up dead Russian soldiers and taking them to a freezer railway car piled with Russian bodies—the casualties of one of the most comprehensive routs President Vladimir Putin’s forces have suffered since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine. A rapid Russian advance into the strategic southern town of 35,000 people, a gateway to a Ukrainian nuclear power station and pathway to attack Odessa from the back, would have showcased the Russian military’s abilities and severed Ukraine’s key communications lines. Instead, the two-day battle of Voznesensk, details of which are only now emerging, turned decisively against the Russians. Judging from the destroyed and abandoned armor, Ukrainian forces, which comprised local volunteers and the professional military, eliminated most of a Russian battalion tactical group on March 2 and 3. The Ukrainian defenders’ performance against a much-better-armed enemy in an overwhelmingly Russian-speaking region was successful in part because of widespread popular support for the Ukrainian cause—one reason the Russian invasion across the country has failed to achieve its principal goals so far. Ukraine on Wednesday said it was launching a counteroffensive on several fronts. "Everyone is united against the common enemy,” said Voznesensk’s 32-year-old mayor, Yevheni Velichko, a former real-estate developer turned wartime commander, who, like other local officials, moves around with a gun. "We are defending our own land. We are at home.” The Russian military says its Ukraine offensive is developing successfully and according to plan. Moscow hasn’t released updated casualty figures since acknowledging on March 2 the death of 498 troops, before the Voznesensk battle. Russian survivors of the Voznesensk battle left behind nearly 30 of their 43 vehicles—tanks, armored personnel carriers, multiple-rocket launchers, trucks—as well as a downed Mi-24 attack helicopter, according to Ukrainian officials in the city. The helicopter’s remnants and some pieces of burned-out Russian armor were still scattered around Voznesensk on Tuesday. Russian forces retreated more than 40 miles to the southeast, where other Ukrainian units have continued pounding them. Some dispersed in nearby forests, where local officials said 10 soldiers have been captured. "We didn’t have a single tank against them, just rocket-propelled grenades, Javelin missiles and the help of artillery,” said Vadym Dombrovsky, commander of the Ukrainian special-forces reconnaissance group in the area and a Voznesensk resident. "The Russians didn’t expect us to be so strong. It was a surprise for them. If they had taken Voznesensk, they would have cut off the whole south of Ukraine.” Ukrainian officers estimated that some 100 Russian troops died in Voznesensk, including those whose bodies were taken by retreating Russian troops or burned inside carbonized vehicles. As of Tuesday, 11 dead Russian soldiers were in the railway car turned morgue, with search parties looking for other bodies in nearby forests. Villagers buried some others. "Sometimes, I wish I could put these bodies on a plane and drop them all onto Moscow, so they realize what is happening here,” said Mr. Sokurenko, the funeral director, as he put Tuesday’s fifth Russian cadaver on blue-plastic sheeting inside his van marked "Cargo 200”—Soviet military slang for killed in action. A Ukrainian military explosives specialist accompanied him, because some bodies had been booby trapped. There's more in the article, but it's a good deep dive into one town's stand against the invaders earlier in the war, one that may have prevented early encirclement of Odessa.
March 17, 20223 yr Fairly bold statement coming from one of the 'stan countries, but it's worth noting they don't share a border with Russia. Russia is however one of its bigger trade partners.
March 17, 20223 yr 25 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: WTF? I'd like to see confirmation about exactly wtf was going on here. Former WA legislator in Poland with Ukrainian children https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/northwest/former-wa-legislator-in-poland-with-ukrainian-children/article_4c158ba4-a4c7-11ec-8de2-bf0a77d470c7.html Quote Speaking on a Polish television show, "Idz Pod Prad,” Shea said he was working with a Texas group called Loving Families and Homes for Orphans (he also called the group Loving Homes and Families for Orphans). "It is a hosting organization that hosts Ukrainian orphans in America with Ukrainian families with the intent that ultimately that ends in adoption,” Shea said on the show. "It’s been doing this hosting program for several years.” Loving Families and Homes for Orphans appears to have a website, but it is nonfunctional. The group, based in Fort Worth, registered with the Texas secretary of state in 2018. No such group is registered as an adoption agency with the Texas Department of Health and Human Services. The group is also not registered with the Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity, the group that oversees American agencies involved in international adoption. A nonprofit group called Loving Families and Homes for Orphans was registered in Florida just one month ago. It lists its purpose as: "To provide loving and caring homes and families for the orphans from other countries for a short time period.” The group was registered by Irina N. Sipko of Palm Coast, Florida. Sipko did not return requests for comment. This seems really weird.
March 17, 20223 yr 11 hours ago, Abracadabra said: I mean there are real fascists in my country who will be defeated. Smoking out a few on the EMB is light work in my spare time. you arent defeating anything dipsheet. 😆 you're nothing more than a walking, breathing punchline. you know it, we know it. you copy and paste arguments from other sources because you actually have no true opinions of your own. carry on meat puppet.
March 17, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Canadians up there arresting planes. Mounties must have sprinkled some crack on it.
March 17, 20223 yr Took me a minute to understand exactly what he's saying, but seems like Putin is more or less ordering Russian businesses that have been reluctant to open operations in Crimea because of likely sanctions to start doing so under State support. (When Putin says things like "you can do this" it's not a request or even a suggestion. It's an order he expects to be followed.)
March 17, 20223 yr 21 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Oh well. They need to suffer anyway as they have stolen money from their own people. Cry me a freaking river, Mikhail.
March 17, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said: more in the thread. Unbelievable. Amateur hour for one of the world's supposedly most powerful and advanced militaries.
March 17, 20223 yr So if you don't support the Dictator and don't support the War you are scum who needs to be removed from society. Sounds like Trump. https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-pro-western-russians-025526078.html Putin says pro-Western Russians are 'scum and traitors' who need to be removed from society
March 17, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: So if you don't support the Dictator and don't support the War you are scum who needs to be removed from society. Sounds like Trump. https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-pro-western-russians-025526078.html Putin says pro-Western Russians are 'scum and traitors' who need to be removed from society Fake news. I was told Russians love Putin unconditionally, so no need for him to make a statement like this.
March 17, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: So if you don't support the Dictator and don't support the War you are scum who needs to be removed from society. Sounds like Trump. https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-pro-western-russians-025526078.html Putin says pro-Western Russians are 'scum and traitors' who need to be removed from society Funny, that's the way Trump feels about half of the US.
March 17, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: So if you don't support the Dictator and don't support the War you are scum who needs to be removed from society. Sounds like Trump. https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-pro-western-russians-025526078.html Putin says pro-Western Russians are 'scum and traitors' who need to be removed from society don't worry @Abracadabra, you're safe.
March 17, 20223 yr 23 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Arnold is a very surprising fellow. F me That was awesome. Thanks for sharing toast
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